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5 unusual facts about Alexandre Benois


Alexandre Benois

His sets and costumes for the productions of Les Sylphides (1909), Giselle (1910), and Petrushka (1911), are counted among his greatest triumphs.

His mother Camilla (ru: Камилла Альбертовна Кавос, and then Бенуа) was the granddaughter of Catterino Cavos.

Benois

Alexandre Benois (1870–1960), Russian painter and stage designer, son of Nicholas Benois

Dmitry Filosofov

The son of the feminist and philanthropist Anna Filosofova, Dmitry Filosofov was educated first in the private K. May's gymnasium (where he first met Alexandre Benois and Konstantin Somov), then in the Saint Petersburg University, studying law.

The Mistress of the Inn

The artist Alexandre Benois provided the scenic design for this production, which was conceived as a showcase for the actress Olga Gzovskaya.


Alexandre Jacovleff

Jacovleff's large group portrait On Academic Dacha was exhibited at the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö in 1912, and received praise from the critics present, including Alexandre Benois.

Batignolles Cemetery

Batignolles is now the home for the earthly remains of André Barsacq, Alexandre Benois, André Breton, Alfred Bruneau, Lucienne Bréval, Gaston Calmette, Blaise Cendrars, Léon Dierx, Pierre Dreyfus, Marguerite Durand, Hélène Dutrieu, Joséphin Péladan, Benjamin Péret, Ray Ventura, Paul Vidal, Édouard Vuillard and André Zirnheld (in the family grave), among others.

Le Pavillon d'Armide

Le Pavillon d'Armide is a ballet in one act and three scenes choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by Nikolai Tcherepnin on a libretto by Alexandre Benois.

Princess Maria Tenisheva

Tenisheva collected watercolors and was friends with famous artists: Vasnetsov, Vrubel, Roerich, Malyutin, Benois, sculptor Paolo Troubetzkoy, and many other artists.


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